Class Image and (in) Context

The course seeks to give students a perspective on art in its different contexts: - the world of the audience; - the view of the audience; - the artist's work; - the artist's world; - the historical and sociological context.

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1. The public - the audience 2. The contemporary 3. The art system 4. The artist's work 5. The mediators 6. The production contexts in historical, social and cultural terms 8. The work of art in its production context: case studies.

Weekly presentation of research projects developed by students. Realization of a final curatorial project.

BERGER, Ways of seeing. Londo, Penguin. 1972 BOYLAN, Alexis L. Visual Culture. Cambridge MA. MIT Press. 2020 BURNETT, Ron. How images think. Cambridge MA, MIT Press. 2004 COSTELLO, Diarmuid (Org) The life and death of images: ethics and aesthetics. London UK, Tate Publishing. 2008 GROYS, Boris. Going public. Berlin, Sternberg Press. 2010 JENKS, Chris. Visual culture. NYC, Routledge. 1995 MELO, Alexandre. O sistema da arte contemporânea. Lisboa, Documenta-Sistema Solar, 2012 MIRZOEFF, Nicholas. An introduction to visual culture. NYC, Routledge. 1999 MONDZIAN, Marie-josé. Homo spectator. Lisboa, Orfeu Negro. 2015 MURRAY Thimothy. Digital baroque. Mineapolis USA, University of Minnesota Press. 2008 PINTO, José Gomes (org). Art and Photography in media environments. Lisboa, Ed. Universitárias Lusófonas. 2016 RAMPLEY, Mathew. Exploring visual culture. UK, Edinburgh Univ. Press. 2005. RANCIÉRE, Jacques. O espectador emncipado. Lisboa, Orfeu Negro. 2010